What does Memorial Day mean?

Sacrificing to the sun is one of the important ceremonies in ancient times, with a long history, which originated from the worship of the sun god by the ancestors in Huaxia. Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties all have the tradition of offering sacrifices to the sun. It is still dark every day in summer, and the memorial day is after sunset; Yin Shangbai, chosen at the top of the red sun; Zhou Shangchi is used to offering sacrifices to the sun in the morning and evening when the sun is red. But in the Zhou dynasty, "heaven" was the highest god, and the taste of the sun god declined. He only offered sacrifices in beginning of spring, Spring Equinox, Long Summer, Summer Solstice, beginning of autumn, Autumn Equinox, beginning of winter and Winter Solstice.

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Tomb-Sweeping Day: On the fifth day of April, it was originally one of the 24 solar terms, but because it is near the Cold Food Festival, it became a festival to sweep graves and worship ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the traditional major Spring Festival in China. Participants in Tomb-Sweeping Day are all people, from the king's ministers to ordinary people. They should worship their ancestors on this festival. Since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court has given officials a holiday and asked them to go to their hometown to visit their graves.

Dragon Boat Festival: On the fifth day of May, it is a festival in China calendar-Dragon Boat Festival. Drive away insects.

July 30th: July 14/ 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival in China Taoism and July 30th in folklore. Buddhism called it "Orchid Club", but it was not designated as this day until it was introduced to China.

October 1st: It's called Cold Clothes Festival. It is said that it originated from the story that Meng Jiangnu traveled thousands of miles to find her husband to send cold clothes. The so-called "send cold clothes on October 1, cry thousands of miles down the Great Wall, and hold your bones back to your hometown."

1 1 month 16: On this day, please ask the Buddha to turn over for the dead.

1February 23: commonly known as off-year, it is a day to send the kitchen god and worship the Spring Festival.

At the same time, on the first, eighth, fifteenth, nineteenth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth and thirtieth day of each month, offerings are made to eliminate sin and make people happy. Sacrifice can also be made according to the date of death of the deceased.